The Onion Buys Infowars

[UltraBudgie]

Huh. I thought Mr Jones was bloviating, but the AP has just put this out:

What happens next in The Onion's effort to buy Alex Jones' Infowars

The Onion’s winning bid for Alex Jones ’ Infowars platform is under review by a federal bankruptcy judge after Jones and his lawyers complained about how an auction was conducted.

The satirical news outlet was announced as the winning bidder on Thursday in an auction that is part of Jones' personal bankruptcy. Hours later, Infowars headquarters in Austin, Texas and its websites were shut down and Jones was broadcasting from a new studio he had set up before the bankruptcy auction. By Friday morning, Infowars and its websites were back up and running for reasons that were not entirely clear.

At a hastily called court hearing in Houston on Thursday, Judge Christopher Lopez ordered another hearing to be held next week. He wants to know what happened with the auction and how the bankruptcy trustee chose The Onion over the only other bidder — a company affiliated with a Jones product-selling website.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/n...338636007/

Still think it might be Jones' finger on the on/off switch, manipulating things to maximize his message.

Edit: Oops, I'm wrong. From later in the article:

Murray [the bankruptcy trustee] had Infowars' website and studio shut down Thursday as he began the process of securing assets, a lawyer for the trustee said in court Thursday. But on Friday, Infowars and its websites were back up and running.